| Article ID: | iaor20012920 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 1140 |
| End Page Number: | 1154 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1999 |
| Journal: | Journal of Applied Probability |
| Authors: | Dieulle Laurence |
| Keywords: | maintenance, repair & replacement |
For systems subject to inspections at Poisson random times, we present an analytic method which gives upper and lower bounds for the reliability. We also study its asymptotic behaviour and derive the asymptotic failure rate.